*Video of a church service at Atlanta’s Passion City Church on Sunday went viral for showing Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy saying that white people could atone for racism and express “shame” by shining the shoes of black people.
He then got on his knees and shined the shoes of Christian rapper Lecrae, who appeared with Cathy and the church’s pastor Louie Giglio for “an open and honest conversation around how racism has plagued our city for generations, and the steps we can all take to confront it head-on in our church, our neighborhoods, and our hearts.”
As Cathy shined Lecrae’s shoes, he said: “If we need to find somebody that needs to have their shoes shined, we just need to go right on over and shine their shoes and whether they got tennis shoes on or not, maybe they got sandals on, it really doesn’t matter. But there’s a time at which we need to have some personal action here. Maybe we need to give them a hug, too.”
The CEO went on to say that he purchased 1,500 shoe brushes and distributed them to Chick-fil-A operators and staff, explaining: “Any expressions of a contrite heart, of a sense of humility, a sense of shame, a sense of embarrassment, but yet with an apologetic heart, I think that’s what our world needs to hear today.”
Cathy said that roughly a dozen Chick-Fil-A restaurants had been vandalized in the recent protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
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